Star Schools Program
The Star Schools Program is a Federal Government of [the United States|United States government] program created to honor schools. Established as part of the United [States Department of Education] in 1988, the purpose of this program is to:
- Encourage improved instruction in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and other subjects.
- Serve underserved populations, including disadvantaged, non-reading, and limited English proficient populations and individuals with disabilities. Star Schools grants are made to eligible telecommunications partnerships, to enable such partnerships to:
- * develop, construct, acquire, maintain, and operate telecommunications audio and visual facilities and equipment;
- * develop and acquire educational and instructional programming; and
- * obtain technical assistance for the use of such facilities and instructional programming.